@stoweboyd: Ditto has been acquired by Groupon. Jyri Engestrom is now director of product management there. http://t.co/lIONdIp9 Ditto turns off 30 Apr

April 19, 2012 at 04:11AM via http://bit.ly/J8H2wL

Have to admit that it seemed like Ditto wasn’t catching on, and given the 30 April shutdown of the service, this could be a talent acquisition (or ‘acqui-hire’). We’ll have to keep looking at what Jyri and team cook up there, but there is always the possibility that Jyri will wander off and do something new.

grantrharrison: Lets be clear.  Groupon is for losers. (via More Evidence Groupon Is Bad for Business - Technology - The Atlantic Wire)
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grantrharrison:

Lets be clear.  Groupon is for losers.

(via More Evidence Groupon Is Bad for Business - Technology - The Atlantic Wire)

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Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal

Shortlogic lays it out: Groupon can’t make money on a billion in revenue, so when will it start making money? The model doesn’t scale. And a pile of the money that they’ve raised has been paid out to founders and earlier investors, so a lot of folks are calling it a ponzi scheme, and the IPO is designed to cash out the investors who pout in a billion earlier this year.

It’s a mess.

(Source: shortlogic)

fred-wilson: Facebook’s Growing Web of Frenemies - WSJ.com Starting to remind me of Microsoft a decade ago, when they were trying to win on seven or eight fronts — PC O/S, IM, email, mobile phones, game systems, corporate IT, office apps, etc. — and meanwhile the web came along and screwed everything up, and gave serious advantages to others. Now Facebook is fighting on seven fronts on so, and something is coming to upend their position at the center of today’s web: social O/S. Watch out, Zuck.
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fred-wilson:

Facebook’s Growing Web of Frenemies - WSJ.com

Starting to remind me of Microsoft a decade ago, when they were trying to win on seven or eight fronts — PC O/S, IM, email, mobile phones, game systems, corporate IT, office apps, etc. — and meanwhile the web came along and screwed everything up, and gave serious advantages to others.

Now Facebook is fighting on seven fronts on so, and something is coming to upend their position at the center of today’s web: social O/S. Watch out, Zuck.